The following Officers of the Law, having given their lives in the Line of Duty are enrolled in the Order of Heroes of the Dominion of British West Florida (Justice Division) and are styled
'The Most Honourable Rank and Name, Hero of Justice'.

(For example: The Most Honourable Deputy Sheriff Howard Edward Dutton, Hero of Justice.)

If a picture of the fallen hero is available, a link to that picture has been provided. The roll will be expanded as more Heroes of Justice are identified to the Register of Florida for inclusion.


Police Officer Alexander Algeo (17 March 1856)
Sheriff Daniel Jackson Brownell (26 November 1872)
Chief of Police David C. Hennessy (16 October 1890)
Patrolman John Hurley (4 April 1892)
Corporal Thomas Fitzgerald (10 August 1892)
Patrolman Albert Turegano (9 February 1893)
Patrolman John Petaway (10 October 1893)
Patrolman John H. Keller (18 November 1894)
Sheriff Ed S. McMillian (2 July 1895)
Patrolman John Teen (27 April 1896)
Corporal Anthony Cleary (6 May 1898)
Patrolman Martin Trimp (16 May 1898)
Coproral Richard Fitzgerald (10 June 1898)
Corporal Thomas Duffy (11 May 1899)
Police Officer John Yelverton (3 June 1899)
Patrolman Michael Hanley (10 May 1900)
Partolman Peter J. Lamb (24 July 1900)
Captain John Day (24 july 1900)
Corporal John F. Lally (28 July 1900)
Sergeant Gabriel J. (Gabe) Porteous (28 July 1900)
Town Marshal Walter E. Richardson (19 December 1900)
Patrolman John Thomas (10 March 1901)
Officer Edward McGrath Morris (1 April 1901)
Patrolman Lester H. Johnson (18 January 1903)
Patrolman Charles Doyle (7 February 1903)
Police Officer William B. Burnham (18 March 1906)
Patrolman Robert J. Combias (18 October 1907)
Patrolman John Carroll (14 August 1908)
Police Officer J. D. Carter (4 April 1909)
Patrolman Charles Merritt (14 February 1911)
Mounted Patrolman Joseph Lacoste (1 November 1911)
Chief of Police J. B. Hare (16 November 1911)
Chief of Police Charles Dickey (8 September 1913)
Special Agent Alexander McGill (22 December 1912)
Patrolman Dennis Egan (21 June 1914)
Patrolman Francis A. Burke (16 July 1915)
Captain Gary O. Mullen (2 August 1917)
Superintendent James W. Reynolds (2 August 1917)
Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Scott (19 November 1917)
Patrolman William Brown (9 December 1917)
Patrolman Frank P. Connor (14 February 1918)
Patrolman Patrick J. Kennedy (14 February 1918)
Detective Theodore A. Obitz (26 May 1918)
Corporal Charles A. Giblin (15 June 1919)
Corporal Alfred J. Beyl (14 February 1920)
Patrolman Roselius Folse (20 July 1920)
Deputy Sheriff John L. Ivey (28 February 1921)
Patrolman Pat Manning (27 May 1921)
Sheriff A. Cary Ellis (1 January 1923)
Deputy Sheriff Wiley Pierce (3 March 1923)
Deputy Sheriff Robert Wesley Crain (3 March 1923)
Deputy Sheriff August Esteves (23 April 1923)
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Estopinal (23 April 1923)
Officer Joseph Merino (18 September 1923)
Patrolman Lemmie L. Fortenberry (17 February 1924)
Sheriff Robert B. Day (19 March 1924)
Officer James J. Shaw (21 December 1924)
Patrolman William C. Grumwald (24 December 1924)
Patrolman Jacob Uhle (24 December 1924)
Deputy Joseph Arnold Le Jeune (31 December 1925)
Officer Christopher M. Dean (22 January 1926)
Patrolman Frank C. Mahen (5 February 1926)
Patrol Officer Jacob Otto Wolff (8 September 1937)
Captain Ike Steele (6 September 1928)
Deputy Sheriff Thomas G. Blount (17 August 1929)
Officer W. J. Murphy (18 October 1929)
Patrolman William Blumstein (24 November 1930)
Chief of Detectives Frank E. Shoonmaker (24 October 1931)
Patrolman Earnest A. Grillot (24 December 1931)
Patrolman ALvert E. Oestriecher (9 March 1932)
Patrolman Cornelius L. Ford (9 March 1932)
Corporal George P. Weidert (9 March 1932)
Motorcycle Officer C. F. Bazzel (16 March 1932)
Sheriff Matt Wann (3 May 1932)
Deputy Sheriff Delos C. Wood (21 July 1934)
Deputy Sheriff Dave Hamm (27 October 1934)
Officer Edward DeFord (31 October 1935)
Deputy Sheriff William D. Pledger (9 September 1935)
Sheriff Daniel Clayton Adkinson (7 April 1938)
Detective Archie Brown (19 August 1938)
Police Officer Herbert Hatcher (15 January 1939)
Sheriff Robert E. Gatlin (12 November 1942)
Officer Ollie Mason (15 June 1943)
Police Officer Clifton Tillman (3 July 1943)
Detective Nicholas G. Jacob (6 September 1948)
Patrolman Charles R. Johns (2 January 1949)
Patrolman Robert Carl May (14 March 1949)
Deputy Sheriff Mose Hill (10 May 1950)
Constable Wayne Coram (6 October 1951)
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Elmer Whitworth (22 April 1954)
Sergeant Ernest F. Beaugez (27 May 1954)
Patrolman Percival A. Johnson (10 September 1955)
Agent Roscoe H. Hargett (24 September 1955)
Deputy Sheriff Len B. Adams (16 June 1958)
Deputy Marshall Guss Gill (12 July 1958)
Deputy Marshall Jake Galloway (12 July 1958)
District Supervisor Corwin Marcus Starry (2 November 1958)
Patrolman Norman Lee Read (13 December 1959)
Deputy Sheriff Horace C. (Pot) Hall (20 July 1960)
Deputy Sheriff Aaron Creel (4 July 1963)
Deputy Sheriff Allen Heldon Finch (4 July 1963)
Patrolman Gilbert D. Benitez (13 August 1963)
Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Hurt (13 November 1963)
Police Officer Edmond Leo McGehee (28 January 1964)
Patrolman Charles T. Kramer (8 March 1965)
Deputy Sheriff O'Neal Moore (2 June 1965)
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Mallory Gassman (20 January 1966)
Patrolman Thomas F. Jackson (26 February 1966)
Lieutenant George W. Bannister (3 March 1966)
Sergeant Joseph Sanchez (6 June 1966)
Patrolman James D. Clayton (12 September 1966)
Officer Clarence Marigny (20 July 1967)
Sergeant Lloyd E Verrett, Sr (5 October 1967)
Officer Fred Earl Babb (1 December 1967)
Officer Earl Royce Williams (24 June 1968)
Patrolman Peter Edward Bergeron Jr. (12 December 1969)
Police Officer Woodrow Wayne Scarbrough (5 May 1970)
Patrolman Emery Wilson (9 November 1970)
Patrolman Joseph Douglas Spiers (21 November 1971)
Deputy Sheriff Ralph Dwayne Wilder (10 January 1972)
Deputy Sheriff Ralph G. Hancock (10 January 1972)
Cadet Alfred E. Harrell (31 December 1972)
Patrolman Paul A. Persigo (7 January 1973)
Patrolman Philip J. Coleman Sr. (7 January 1973)
Deputy Superintendent Louis Joseph Sirgo (7 January 1973)
Patrolman Earl Wesley Phillips (19 February 1973)
Sergeant Ediwn C. Hosli Sr. (5 March 1973)
Deputy Sheriff Charles Leroy Wilkerson (19 January 1974)
Patrolman Dennis J. McInerney (26 February 1974)
Patrol Officer Raymond Earl Jarell (19 September 1974)
Deputy Sheriff Daniel Stanley Hansford (17 November 1974)
Patrolman John J. Jordan (6 December 1974)
Patrolman Joe Louis Jushaway (21 December 1974)
Detective Joseph R. Tardiff Jr. (28 February 1975)
Sergeant Earl Lucien Alfred (13 August 1975)
Deputy Sheriff David Eugene Beck (17 November 1975)
Deputy Sheriff Robert David Stoltz (17 November 1975)
Police Officer Linda A. Lawrence (1 August 1977)
Sergeant Louis Henry Wagner II (3 June 1978)
Patrolman Ronald E. Pope (12 August 1978)
Captain Thomas J. Albert Sr. (21 February 1979)
Patrolman Buford Dedeaux (8 June 1979)
Sergeant john William Bonnell III (10 July 1979)
Patrolman Henry Johnny Booth (14 August 1979)
Patrolman Ronald Duplechain (17 November 1979)
Patrol Officer John Ward Dotson (8 April 1980)
Deputy Sheriff Floyd Douglas Heist Sr. (3 May 1980)
Police Officer Amos Cross (12 September 1980)
Patrolman Gregory J. Neupert (8 November 1980)
Corporal Michael Wayne Ritchie (12 December 1981)
Warden Roy S. Bujol (6 October 1982)
Police Officer Stephen A. Taylor (19 October 1982)
Deputy Sheriff Edward Toefield Jr. (2 February 1984)
Corporal Eric Byron Streeter (11 March 1984)
Detective Lieutenant Sherman Ray Walker (6 November 1984)
Deputy Sheriff James Arthur Bevis (4 April 1985)
Corporal Julius Norman Schulte (18 April 1985)
Deputy Sheriff Richard Amacker Kent III (1 November 1985)
Corporal Joesph W. Jarreau Jr. (23 November 1985)
Sergeant Floyd Milton Moore Jr. (28 January 1986)
Deputy Sheriff Howard Edward Dutton (1 October 1987)
Police Officer Andrea Keith Williams (16 February 1988)
Sheriff's Sergeant Roosevelt Walker Jr. (22 May 1988)
Sergeant Warren Joesph Broussard (21 June 1988)
Corporal Gerald Kevin Simmons (21 November 1988)
Deputy Sheriff Donald Ray Cook (3 Decmber 1988)
Assistant Chief of Police Corbett W. Penton (6 February 1989)
Police Officer Earl Joseph Hauck II (22 March 1990)
Investigator Steven Paul Bolyard (18 June 1990)
Officer Douglas Emil Kountz Jr. (2 May 1992)
Corpral Betty Dunn Smothers (7 January 1993)
Deputy Sheriff Len J. Rowell (28 June 1994)
Deputy Sheriff Barton Joseph Granier (27 January 1996)
Police Officer Chris D. McCormick Sr. (17 July 1996)
Detective Joseph C. Thomas (18 July 1996)
Deputy Sheriff Lonny Lee Lindsey (17 September 1996)
Officer Charles Craig Greenwald (26 September 1996)
Corporal Owen Patrick McClinton (13 December 1996)
Corporal Rufus Earle Brown (23 March 1997)
Sergeant Steven Dewain Morgan (6 May 1998)
Detective James Franklin Northcutt (6 May 1998)
Deputy Sheriff Bruce Wayne Evans (18 July 2000)
Sergeant Nolan Williamson Sr. (24 March 2000)
Patrolman Daniel James Clark Sr. (6 June 2002)
Code Enforcement Officer Edmond J. Songy Jr. (9 July 2002)
Police Officer Christopher Wayne Russel (4 August 2002)
Police Officer Larry DeWayne Lee (17 October 2002)
Police Officer Randal James Spearman (4 May 2003)
Corporal Matthew Alan Thompson (12 February 2004)
Lieutenant Vickie Salassi Wax (22 May 2004)
Police Officer Alva Ray Simmons (10 July 2004)
Police Officer LaToya Nicole Johnson (9 August 2004)
Chief of Police Anthony Dwight Lucas (4 Feb 2005)
Patrolman Thomas Drumane Catchings (17 March 2005)
Sergeant Kevin Kight (27 March 2005)
Detective Terry Lee Melancon Jr. (10 August 2005)
Narcotics Investigator Brandon Douglas (Teddy) Breland (27 November 2005)
Patrol Officer Edward Odell Fite (27 November 2005)
Patrolman Terry Micheal Byrd (27 March 2006)
Captain Octavio Gonzalez (16 June 2006)
Deputy Sheriff Harold Michael (Mike) Altman (30 January 2007)
Deputy First Class Hilery A. Mayo Jr. (9 June 2007)
Reserve Deputy Joe Bill Galloway (20 August 2007)
Police Officer Thelonious Anthony Dukes Sr. (9 November 2007)
Police Officer Nicola Cotton (28 January 2008)
Deputy Sheriff Anthony Forgione (22 July 2008)
Deputy Sheriff Burton (Burt) Lopez (25 April 2009)
Deputy Sheriff Warren (Skip) York (25 April 2009)

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